Hiroyuki Enomoto

Hiroyuki Enomoto is a professor of Arctic Environment Research Center, National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR), and the Graduate University for Advanced Studies professor. Since 2014, he is the vice director-general of NIPR. He received Ph.D. at the ETH Zurich in 1989 on physical geography on sea ice and climate relationships. His research area is climatological investigations of snow and ice of ocean, land, and ice sheet in the Arctic, Antarctic, and snow cover area in the middle latitudes. He is widely scanning changing cryosphere using satellite microwave remote sensing and visiting polar snow and ice field. His first visit to the glacier was Patagonia, South America in 1981. Since then, he has worked in many cold regions. He visited Svalbard by opening a Japanese Arctic research station and Dome Fuji Antarctica to start up a new Antarctic inland station and drilling site and, installed AWS along the traverse route. He joined Japanese, Australian, and Swedish Antarctic Expeditions, and in the Arctic, he worked very often in Alaska as the collaborator of IARC/UAF and Japanese projects on the linkage of land-sea ice processes.
Since 2011, he has been working as the leading member of the Japanese Arctic research projects and working with international cryospheric and Arctic meetings. He worked as the Sub-Project Director of the Japanese Arctic Research Project: Arctic Challenge for Sustainability (ArCS), and, since 2020, He is leading the ArCS II project as the project director.
His international contributions have been stressed by working as the lead author of IPCC SROCC, steering member of IUGG/IACS, WCRP/CliC, WMO/GCOS TOPC, ISAC, and Cryospheric WG member and council member of IASC (the Vice-president of IASC since 2020). In the domestic activities in Japan, he has been working with the Japanese society of snow and ice (polar subgroup, satellite subgroup) and Japan Consortium of Arctic Environment Research, Sub-committee member of IASC, SCAR, IACS, CliC in the Science Council of Japan. He was the co-chair of the science advisory board for the 3rd Arctic Science Ministerial, held in Tokyo, 2021.
He is happy to seek a scientific frontier of the cryosphere and collaborations in international polar expeditions and community works.